THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

USUALLY at this time of year one topic alone absorbs the interest and dominates the conversation of some two-thousand-odd Dartmouth undergraduates. Football is a jealous despot and only grudgingly yields a part of its sway to the "little iron man" of the Mediterranean, with his African war games. But it is true that this fall the decriers of Hanover's self-isolation from the world scene are seeing a slight change.

As New Hampshire foliage passes its peak of autumn brilliance and starts to dull, student readers of the metropolitan dailies linger increasingly over the frontpage headlines before burying themselves in the sporting pages, and such words as "Adowa," "sanctions," "embargo," and "Aloisi," are becoming just as much a part of the local vocabulary as "interference," "lateral," "off-tackle," and "fundamentals." We even know of one fan who is keeping a large map of Ethiopia on his wall with red thumb tacks to mark the daily movement of the Italian troops and blue ones for the Ethiopians.

This interest is by no means a transitory one, and the innoculations of Hanover's anti-war agencies seem to have taken.